"I have made up my mind that if……" — Robert Green Ingersoll
"I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand."
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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